{"id":7428,"date":"2013-08-14T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sosueurope.com\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2013-08-14T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:10:57","slug":"should-you-source-only-purple-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcingsummit.net\/sosuuk\/should-you-source-only-purple-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you source only Purple Squirrels?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dan Nuroo<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\"squirrel-1-0\"<\/a>Been thinking a bit of late as to what is the most important thing about Recruiting\u2026 Is the ability to find that (excuse me for saying) Purple Squirrel<\/a>, that \u201cunfindable\u201d person? Or is it the consistency of finding great people for your company?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all for the latter.\u00a0 Finding the superstars, the unfindable, doesn\u2019t really change the world.\u00a0 Sure it\u2019ll make people happy, it\u2019ll solve an immediate business problem, and allow you to give yourself an internal high 5, and allow you to brag to everyone how great you are as a Recruiter.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my theory.\u00a0 All companies have their Superstars, all companies have their good, ordinary people, those people who just get things done, and ALL companies will have a bottom 10 percent.\u00a0 You know that magical number that some companies brag about purging year on year!\u00a0 Sorry if that offends anyone, but seriously, it is a mathematical fact that there will be a bottom 10%.<\/p>\n

When you look at the success of sporting clubs, they all have their stars, those people who can win the unwinnable game for you.\u00a0 But that only happens occasionally, not every week.\u00a0 Ultimate success is found over an entire season, and that success comes from a consistency of performance across the whole year, not just the occasional piece of brilliance.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, that piece of brilliance is amazing and a great tool to have and everyone strives for that piece of superstardom, but let\u2019s keep it in perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re only as strong as your weakest link\u201d is a great saying.\u00a0 You need every person pulling in the same direction, doing their job and doing it well, when someone stuffs up it can have an effect on the whole team, or company.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing, every company I see marketing itself in the employment space will say something along the lines of \u201cWe only hire the best\u201d \u201cWe hire the top 2%\u201d blah blah blah.\u00a0 Well that\u2019s great, but managing a whole team of \u201cSuperstars\u201d who normally have the ego to go with it is another challenge unto itself.\u00a0 Especially if you as an organization have targeted, pitched to and\u00a0 coerced someone to join you.\u00a0 You do need a mix.<\/p>\n

When we sit down and look at our hiring strategies going forward, yes we plan to hire superstars, we will hire superstars which will help our company grow in the direction we want it to go, but, our focus is always on consistency of hire, let\u2019s minimize the gap between our best and our worst, let\u2019s build a consistency that will make us better as a whole.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, those superstars tend to hire themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 If they are looking for a change, or you\u2019ve been able to position your company to a point that they are looking for a change, and you\u2019re it, then the hard work is done.\u00a0 All you need to do is identify, engage and provide the environment for the deal to be made.<\/p>\n

The meat and potatoes of Recruitment however is in the rank and file hiring.\u00a0 The people who do all the \u201cReal work\u201d for you.\u00a0 The one\u2019s you\u2019ll attract via a job board (yes they still exist and are effective!) .\u00a0 The hard yards is the constant interviewing, cv reviewing etc to uncover people who will make a long term benefit to your business.\u00a0 Not lowering your standards when the CEO is at your desk screaming at you to fill x amount of vacancies in y amount of time.\u00a0 Remember this consistency is the benefit you\u2019ll bring to the business as they underpin the business as a whole.<\/p>\n

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